12 Easy Recipes to Make in Your Food Processor

I teach cooking classes several times a month in Austin at Patricia’s Table. (My next class is coming up on June 28, if you’re interested! Sign up with a friend and BYOB; great food and lots of fun guaranteed!)

We use a food processor in nearly every class. And invariably, as I’m introducing my sous chef (le food processor), someone says:

“I have a food processor, but I’ve never even taken it out of the box! I just don’t know what to use it for.”

Can you relate?

Then this post is for you :) Today I’m featuring twelve delicious recipes that you can whip up in your food processor with ease.

But first, a couple of things:

Although the bowl and blade of a food processor can be a bit of a hassle to clean, the time saved in chopping and mixing makes a little extra clean up well worth it. (Plus, you can always leave the dirty bowl and blade in the sink and let your husband do the cleaning! Just kidding haha. I would never do that.)

Also, although you can sub a blender for a food processor in some of the recipes, I prefer the processor because you can better control the consistency and texture of what’s inside. For example, homemade pesto in a high-powered blender can very quickly turn into a runny mess; whereas, in a food processor, you can gently pulse the basil, nuts, garlic and cheese, while streaming in the olive oil, to achieve the slightly-chunky consistency that makes homemade pesto so delightful.

And these don’t even include all the things you can do with the slicing and grating blades! I’ll save those for another post :) Do you have a food processor? Which kind? And what do you make? I’d love to hear from you, thanks!